Latest Vacancies at SpaceFinish Africa

Job Summary

• The Lead Designer will Coordinate and oversee all technical activities relating to architectural and engineering projects, including directing the design team, reviewing drafts and computer models, and approving design changes.
• Communicating directly with managers, project managers, marketing personnel, and clients to discuss and organize projects from original conceptual design through construction.
• Manage client expectations, drive clear stakeholder communications at different client levels

Principal Duties/ Responsibilities
Design:

• Establish design approaches that improve the design creation and solutions processes
• Formulate design approaches and direct the areas of focus to elicit latent needs
• Conceptualise and guide the design creation processes to generate breakthrough solutions
• Manage work processes and resolve unforeseen problems to achieve optimal performance
• Lead investigation and research on emerging technologies and design trends to facilitate decision-making on designs for long-term benefits
• Evaluate technological trends and current technical constraints to develop plans to achieve the desired design solutions
• Devise approaches to assess the practicality and feasibility of design processes in use
• Articulate design options to achieve buy-in from stakeholders

3D Modelling:

• Drive new processes that adopt 3D modelling technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop conflict resolution processes
• Drive new maintenance processes that adopt 3D modelling technologies
• Ensure procedures and operations are implemented according to plan and WSH requirements
• Assess efficiency and effectiveness of 3D modelling to the maintenance processes

Design Standards and Specification:

• Lead the establishment of design standards and specifications to facilitate designs’ fulfillment of regulatory requirements, and drive strategies to enhance quality of designs
• Anticipate and plan for potential new regulations impacting design and development
• Determine the cost impact of changes to design standards and specifications for the organisation
• Guide the revision of procedures and standards for technical documentation

Design and Aesthetic Sensibility:

• Establish overall conceptual frameworks to define the organisation’s sense of aesthetics and correlate aesthetics to overall organisational success
• Direct the development of the overall brand identities of products, and ensuring coherence of brand elements across all product and service lines
• Define desired experiences that are associated with particular aesthetic styles
• Establish an overall sense of aesthetic for the organisation’s creative design work
• Embed deeper brand identities and philosophies into product design aesthetics
• Drive the development of aesthetically pleasing products that make lasting impressions with audiences
• Drive research activities to uncover the principles behind aesthetically pleasing designs for users
• Develop the art direction for new aesthetics, expressions and forms for design projects and creative work

Design for Safety, Sustainability and Maintainability:

• Establish overall conceptual frameworks to define the organisation’s sense of aesthetics and correlate aesthetics to overall organisational success
• Direct the development of the overall brand identities of products, and ensuring coherence of brand elements across all product and service lines
• Define desired experiences that are associated with particular aesthetic styles
• Establish an overall sense of aesthetic for the organisation’s creative design work
• Embed deeper brand identities and philosophies into product design aesthetics
• Drive the development of aesthetically pleasing products that make lasting impressions with audiences
• Drive research activities to uncover the principles behind aesthetically pleasing designs for users
• Develop the art direction for new aesthetics, expressions and forms for design projects and creative work

Qualification and Experience

• Master's Degree in Architecture
• Minimum of 8-10 years in a similar capacity

Skills and Competency Requirements:

• Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Illustrator or other design programs
• Excellent portfolio of previous works
• Creative talent, imagination and eye for design
• Communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills

Other Behavioral Competency Requirements:

• Fosters team spirit and collaboration, encourages and creates mechanisms for sharing of expertise
• Championing results orientation and excellence
• Foster a culture that values creativity, innovation, and an openness to diverse perspectives
• Delivers effective presentations and speeches, either prepared or extemporaneous, to internal and external audiences on behalf of the organization.
• Handles complex on-the-spot questions (e.g. from the public and other stakeholders)
• Able to effectively allocate responsibilities to others and provide direction

go to method of application »

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Principal Duties/ Responsibilities
Design:

• Use simple design approaches to translate ideas into design solutions
• Knowledge of principles of design research, simple types of design software for design creation, spatial and functional relationships, and existing industry design processes.
• Conduct design research to uncover insights for design translation
• Analyse data to examine, understand and describe user needs
• Apply basic technical knowledge to achieve the desired design that best addresses user needs
• Identify common design failures and defects and ways to prevent them
• Coordinate among relevant teams and specialists
• Propose basic finishes and prepare specifications for project

3D Modelling:

• Use basic 3D modelling software to create basic three-dimensional models for equipment, components and systems
• Understand basic 3D modelling software for design creation
• Basic knowledge of model creation in adherence to prevailing regulatory and safety standards

Design Standards and specification:

• Implement design standards to ensure the designs meet commonly acceptable levels of quality and requirements
• Participate in quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) reviews and checks on design standards and specification documents

Design and Aesthetic sensibility:

• Implement design standards to ensure the designs meet commonly acceptable levels of quality and requirements
• Participate in quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) reviews and checks on design standards and specification documents

Design for safety, sustainability and maintainability:

• Recognise and highlight safety and health risks inherent in designs in compliance with commonly acceptable control measures.
• Maintain records on safety and health issues identified during the design review process and actions taken
• Identify critical maintenance items that can be influenced by design
• Evaluate the feasibility of cost savings in maintenance and sustenance requirements

Qualification And Experience

• Master's degree in Architecture
• Minimum of 1-2 years in a similar capacity

Skills and Competency Requirements:

• Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Illustrator or other design programs
• Excellent portfolio of previous works
• Creative talent, imagination and eye for design
• Communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills

go to method of application »

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Job Summary

• The Mid-level designer will Prepare and present feasibility reports and design proposals to client, develop concept plans, designs and design solutions, produce detailed workings, drawings and specifications, advise clients on the practicality of their project as well as lead liaison and engagements with clients, consultants, contractors, vendors on architectural requirements and design concepts.

Principal Duties/ Responsibilities
Design:

• Knowledge of principles of managing research for design creation and development, methods for managing stakeholders, design failures and defects, and preventive measures to address design failures and defects.
• Encourage the utilisation of relevant design approaches and techniques to achieve design solutions
• Review progress and determine the adequacy of various phases in the design creation and development processes
• Communicate with internal and external parties to articulate design intentions and obtain feedback during the design process
• Assess gaps within the design processes and develop appropriate remedial strategies
• Oversee decisions regarding overall design creation and development
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary collaborations as well as brainstorming sessions
• Review, evaluate and modify designs to suit authority requirements and meet design intentions

3D Modelling:

• Analyse 3D models and conduct scenario visualisation to validate project plans and design quality
• Run simulations to test 3D models
• Test what-if scenarios
• Validate project plans
• Test feasibility of designs
• Identify problems with design quality
• Ensure project plans and designs are compliant with relevant and prevailing regulatory standards
• Explore and apply key animation principles and techniques to create 3D animation for VR optimisation

Design Standards and specification:

• Manage and inspect designs to ensure that they are executed in accordance with relevant required design standards, work quality and established policies and regulations
• Manage design policies and procedures for compliance purposes
• Facilitate quality management reviews during design development
• Manage overall quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) reviews and check to ensure design standards are met

Design and Aesthetic sensibility:

• Evaluate the aesthetics and sensory appeal of designs to ensure that they evoke the desired emotions in the target audiences
• Assess and make trade-offs in the design process by compromising either critical functionality or aesthetic appeal
• Propose suggestions to enhance the aesthetic and sensory appeal of designs
• Review overall design of products and services to ensure that they bring positive associations and do not overload the users’ senses
• Develop new aesthetics and design concepts for design

Design for safety, sustainability and maintainability:

• Develop design plans to ensure compliance with Design Safety measures to eliminate or reduce the safety and health risks during the project lifecycle
• Implement and monitor risk control measures
• Verify that all information provided by the developer or contractor for the project has been accounted for
• Communicate residual risks to main stakeholders for further mitigation
• Review documentation of safety and health issues identified during the design review process and actions taken
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to develop maintainable and sustainable designs

Qualification and Experience

• Master's in Architecture
• Minimum of 4 years for Mid Level Designer.
• Entry Level for Junior Designers.

Skills and Competency Requirements:

• Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Illustrator or other design programs
• Excellent portfolio of previous works
• Creative talent, imagination and eye for design
• Communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills

Other behavioural competency requirements:

• Facilitating teamwork, building and promoting effective teams
• Managing for results
• Communicates difficult ideas and complex messages in a way that aids understanding.
• Prepares effective business cases and proposals.
• Exhibit the behaviours that inspire the trust and confidence of team members and clients